SOME OF MY ZINE PAGES IN PROGRESS

(AD138: FASHION ILLUSTRATION AND IMAGING – IDENTITY AND THE BODY)

 

I have started off with painting some of my pages for my illustrations and even by doing a couple of illustrations and paintings, I have already learnt so much from doing them.

First of all, as I started to do my first drawings and outlines, I realised that I would need to be careful that I had enough space outside the A5 page to bind it together so to not lose any of the painting in the binding. Furthermore, This would mean that I would have to make sure that my drawings were on the right of a landscape A4 page. However, this would only work for pages that would be in the right of a double page spread and because I haven’t necessarily chosen which page is going where for some of my illustrations in my zine, this means that I have to choose before I paint. Unfortunately, I only realised this after having done a couple of paintings. Therefore, I have decided to do my next painting in the centre of the A4 pages so to have enough space on both sides for the binding.

Something else that I have learnt from these drawings is that painting in Gouache has not worked well with the pen on the chalky paint. Therefore two of my brad new pens stopped working from working on the Gouache. 

Other than all of these issues and lessons that I have learnt, I am really happy with the way the paintings turned out and I know that I would like to put them in my zine. 

   

 

I have also furthered my illustrations with knitting and mixed media and I changed my technique from my test experiments and I played around with colour combinations and the way in which I created the ruffles around the edge. I found it really fun making these illustrations as knitting is a form of repetition  and this is something that stills the mind and it allows the preconceived and subconscious thoughts to come forward. 

Something I learnt from creating these is that it takes a very long time to create them, and creating two sets for the two physical copies made everything a lot harder. 

 

All work by Kynza Kendall-Jones

 

 

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